USIA POSTS AND PERSONNEL OVERSEAS.

SEC. 204. USIA POSTS AND PERSONNEL OVERSEAS. (a) Prohibition.— No funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or any other Act may be used to pay any expense associated with the closing of any United States Information Agency post abroad. No funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act shall be used to pay for any expense associated with the Bureau of Management or with the television and film service of the United States Information Agency if a United States Information Agency post abroad is closed after April 1, 1987, and not reopened within 180 days of the date of enactment of this Act. (b) Limitation on Reduction of Positions.— Reductions shall not be made in the number of positions filled by American employees of the United States Information Agency stationed abroad until the number of such employees is the same percentage of the total number of American employees of the Agency as the number of American employees of the Agency stationed abroad in 1981 was to the total number of American employees of the Agency at the same time in 1981. (c) Waiver.— Subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to any United States Information Agency post closed— (1) after January 1, 1987, and before the date of enactment of this Act if the host government will not allow that post to be reopened; (2) because of a break or downgrading of diplomatic relations between the United States and the country in which the post is located; (3) where there is a real and present threat to American diplomats in the city where the post is located and where a travel advisory warning against American travel to the city has been issued by the Department of State; or (4) when the post is closed so as to provide funds to open a new post, staffed by at least one full-time foreign service officer, and where the Director of the United States Information Agency reports to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives that— (A) the new post is a higher priority than the post proposed to be closed; and (B) the total number of United States Information Agency posts abroad staffed by full-time Foreign Service 101 STAT. 1374employees of the Agency is not less than the number of such posts in existence on April 1, 1987. (d) Sequestration.— In the case that a sequestration order is issued pursuant to Part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901 et seq.; Public Law 99–177), the Director of the United States Information Agency may, as part of an agency wide austerity proposal, submit a report proposing a list of United States Information Agency posts to be downgraded or closed in order to comply with the sequestration order, together with a justification for the inclusion of each post on such list. Such report shall be submitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.